Geopolitics is so fascinating, I feel genuinely bad for people who don't at least attempt to follow along. No movie or TV show can compare to real life right now.
Personally, I think we should be okay with having a great conversation with a stranger and leaving it at that. Exchanging contacts isn’t always necessary. One of the beautiful things in life is being able to remember a good conversation with a random person and move on.
i think one of the healthiest things i've ever learned is that you should allow others to reintroduce themselves to you, even your closest friends. Give people space to become who they are without assuming you know who they are just because you've been friends/family for years.
just spent two hours crafting a thought, only to realize I didn’t agree with it anymore. this is one of many reasons the act of writing is so important, and should never be outsourced.
thinking hones your writing.
writing hones your thinking.
most ppl don’t really think. they rearrange cached thoughts until they feel smart. true thinking is rare because it’s metabolically expensive (just like thinking models are computationally expensive).
i’m 22 and i just recently learnt that sleep should be calculated in 90 minute intervals and idk how i didn’t know this for so long but it actually worked to time my sleep like that wtf 😭😭 i woke up and it WASNT HARD TO OPEN MY EYES. mind blowing :’)
I found malware that embedded itself into an audio driver. It silently recorded from the system microphone and uploaded the compressed .wav files every 20 minutes. Using memory forensics and strings, I discovered a hidden process writing to a staged audio cache in %Temp%.
Great question.
When you store passwords, you don't store them directly (that would be unsafe). Instead, you "hash" them. It is hashing that turns "password123" into something like "a7f8k2m9x4".
The problem is, if two people use "password123", they both get the same hash result. Hackers know this and have giant cheat sheets that say "if you see a7f8k2m9x4, the original password was password123."
The solution to this is "salting". Before hashing the password, you add some random junk to it.
So for User A, you might add "xyz" to their password, making it "password123xyz" before hashing.
For User B with the same password, you add different junk like "abc", making it "password123abc".
Now when hashed, they look completely different.
Benefits of salting is that even if a million people use "password123", every single one looks different in your database.
Hackers have to work much harder to crack each password individually